Week in Photos: June 24-28

This little girl is the first giant panda to be born on Earth this year. She’s one of the twins born over the weekend to mom Haizi at the Wolong Nature Reserve in China.

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Nigerian laborers take dot the steep walls of a mine — believed to contain gold — in Minna.

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Number three flashes the ‘303’ (that’d be Dwayne Wade and Miami’s area code, for the uninitiated) at fans during the victory parade for the NBA Champion Miami Heat.

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A Palestinian boy searches the mounds of littler on the beach in Gaza City.

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Workers peer at the hazy sky created by burning trees in Rokan Hilir, ndonesia’s Riau province. Malaysia has had to declare a state of emergency in Johor as smoke from the land-clearing fires in Indonesia is stoking heavy polution throughout the region.

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Soldiers rush an injured Indian pilgrim from a rescue helicopter after he was saved from the mountainous regions near Joshimath, India. Officials said the death toll in the north could rise as soldiers clear towns and villages flattened by landslides and monsoon flooding.

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The much-touted ‘supermoon’ rises over the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion.

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Shiite Muslim worshippers stream across the plaza outside the Imam Hussein shrine — outside Baghdad — during the annual festival of Shabaniyah, which marks the anniversary of the birth of the ninth-century leader.

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Indian soldiers creep through a field of wildflowers near the site of a shootout with suspected insurgent rebels that left five soldiers dead outside Srinagar,.

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Indonesian children play on a ride at a traveling fair that’s stopped at a slum in Jakarta.

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A lightning bolt strikes just off shore in the Panama Bay.

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A child gawks at his own reflection in an art installation by Leandro Erlich titled ‘Dalston House.’ The interactive piece is a full facade of a house built on the ground with a large mirror above it.

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Indian people protect themselves with umbrellas in a monsoon during high tide in Mumbai, India.

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Young tennis fans write the names of players next to their autographs on giant tennis balls during the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London.

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A security guard tackles to the ground a woman as she tries, along with two other feminist activists, to stop the car of Tunisian Prime Minister from leaving the EU commission building after his working session in Brussels.

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The robot music band Z-Machines members perform during their first live event in Tokyo.

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President Barack Obama wipes perspiration from his face as he speaks about climate change at Georgetown University in Washington.

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A child sits in the window of a train while he and others try to escape the heat in the cabin, as temperatures reach 109.4 degrees at Rawalpindi railway station in Pakistan.

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The Chicago Blackhawks pose with the Stanley Cup after beating the Boston Bruins 3-2 in Game 6 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals in Boston.

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A hiker takes a photo on a rock formation known as “The Wave” in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona.

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A woman carries her bike during sunset across Lock One of the Rideau Canal in Ottawa.

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Kashmiri men fish from the weed-covered Dal Lake in Srinagar.

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Palestinian girls play during U.N.-run summer fun games weeks in Gaza City.

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Abu al-Taib, the leader of Ahbab Al-Mustafa Battalion, demonstrates to female members as he holds a gun during a military training in a mosque in the Seif El Dawla neighbourhood in Aleppo.

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A combination of pictures show a student hit by a jet of water sprayed by riot police as he falls off a fence he was climbing, during a protest against the government in Santiago, Chile.

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Astronauts (from left) Zhang Xiaoguang, Nie Haisheng and Wang Yaping salute after returning to earth in the re-entry capsule of China’s Shenzhou-10 spacecraft after a successful 15-day mission in which they docked with a manned space laboratory.

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Damaged homes sit precariously above the flash flood-eroded Mandakini river in the town of Tilwara, India.

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A shepherd boy rounds up sheep in Qunu, South Africa.

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Injured rebel fighters hide from sniper fire as they await to be evacuated by their comrades during clashes with pro-government forces in the Suleiman al-Halabi nieghbourhood in Aleppo, Syria.

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An umpire watches the ball as a match unfolds on Court 18, as seen through wooden slats, at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London.

A South Korean child cools himself off in a fountain in Seoul, South Korea.

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A train passes through a food market in Maeklong, Thailand. Several times a day, shopkeepers swiftly pack up their food stalls and pull back their canopies to let the trains pass.

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A spectator wears an Andy Murray mask as he waits for play to resume on day four of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London.

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Residents shout slogans against police as they set a roadblock on fire to fight their eviction from the Parque Sao Rafael neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Former New England Patriots football player Aaron Hernandez wipes his mouth while handcuffed during a bail hearing in Fall River, Mass.

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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. (left) and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., two of the authors of the immigration reform bill crafted by the Senate’s bipartisan “Gang of Eight,” shake hands on Capitol Hill prior to its passage in the Senate.

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President Barack Obama looks out of the “door of no return” during a tour of Goree Island, Senegal. Goree Island is the site of the former slave house and embarkation point from which slaves were brought to the Americas. The “door of no return” was the entrance to the slave ships.

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Models wear creations by fashion designer Rick Owens as part of his men’s fashion Spring-Summer 2014 collection in Paris as Estonian metal/punk band Winny Puhh perform.

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Insects and birds fly in a dump as a rag picker collects scraps in New Delhi, India.

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An Israeli Apache helicopter releases flares after it fired at targets (right) during the air force pilots’ graduation ceremony at Hatzerim air base in southern Israel.

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Burning vehicles are seen at the site of a fire in Almaty, Kazakhstan after a 16-ton tank truck rolled over after an accident, setting parked cars and a nearby apartment building ablaze.

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Children release 95 white balloons to mark the upcoming 95th birthday of ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital where he is being treated in Pretoria.

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Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj waves to people on Sukhbaatar Square in Ulan Bator after winning a second term, according to preliminary results.